Our Celebration of Beethoven’s 250th Birthday begins with Jonathan Bailey Holland’s Ode, a minimalist and hip-hop influenced response to Beethoven and his 9th Symphony through a 21st-century lens. The QCSO will then bring Beethoven’s exuberant and transcendent 9th Symphony to…

The program opens with Beethoven’s fiery and heroic Leonore Overture No. 3. Wei Luo returns to astound with Prokofiev’s fiercely virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 2. The intensity continues with Osvaldo Golijov’s tango-influenced Last Round, and the program closes with Bartók’s…

Our Celebration of Beethoven’s 250th Birthday concludes with his exhilarating and lyrical Violin Concerto performed by QCSO Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz. Mahler’s programmatic Symphony No. 1, “Titan,” will lead us through a hero’s lifelong battle and ultimate triumph over Fate. Tickets…

Travel the world with beloved compositions inspired by journeys to foreign lands.  We begin on Italy’s Mediterranean shores with Elgar’s colorful concert overture In the South and further explore the Tuscan countryside in Mendelssohn’s joyful and energetic “Italian” Symphony. Dance…

Wagner’s militaristic Rienzi Overture provides a spirited opener to this program before the centerpiece of the concert, Brahms’s intimate and evocative Third Symphony, with its flowing rhythms and lush, soaring melodies. Virtuoso violinist Bella Hristova returns to the Quad Cities…

Our tribute to America begins with the lyricism and power of Barber’s First Symphony.  Ricardo Morales joins the QCSO for the world premiere of Jacob Bancks’s Clarinet Concerto. On the second half of the program, a tapestry of American works…